Hey guys, welcome back, and it's so good to be back for session 4 of School in the Spirit.
Thank you to those of you who are tuning in live, and also there's some of you who will
be tuning in on the replay.
And so whether you're live or on the replay, awesome to have you here.
Love the interaction as well, so please feel free to drop comments, even if it's like a
point that I make and you think, whoa, that was a good point, like you just want to give
it a high five or something.
I love that for two reasons.
One is, I just, and the main reason is, it's quite hard to teach with no one in front of
you, and it's quite nice to get some kind of crowd interaction of some sort.
So I love that.
It's just kind of encouraging for me, to be honest.
And the other thing that's quite helpful is that the more comments you make, the more
the Facebook algorithm picks up the live and shares it with more people.
So I just think the more the merrier with this kind of stuff, and I want to bless as
many people as possible.
So again, feel free to share this.
Jan, you totally can update me.
If you can update me on the, by making a comment, then do that.
Otherwise, you could update me, you could update me after this live.
Oh, that's so cool.
You prayed for Scarlet, colour came back in cheeks, ate lunch and is feeding lambs.
Come on.
That is awesome.
Come on, Jan.
That's so good.
Wow.
Epic.
I'm celebrating too.
That's worth celebrating.
That is so rad.
Thank you, Jesus.
Well, all the glory goes to you.
And that's a good point, actually, Jan.
For those of you who did yesterday's teachings, if you didn't, you should go back and replay
those.
But for those of you who went through yesterday's teachings and you took on the challenge, the
24-hour challenge, hey, feel free to drop those testimonies on.
I want to hear some stories.
So please do that.
I want to celebrate with you.
You can drop it on this one or on the other, on the teaching that the challenge was issued
from.
Yeah, so cool.
So awesome, awesome, awesome.
Also just to reiterate, we've got this three-day school here right now, School of the Spirit.
And this is going to be followed by a three-week activation in the Online School of Sonship.
The link for the Online School of Sonship is actually on the last teaching, and I will
also put it on the comments of this teaching once it has been uploaded to the Raising Royalty
site.
So you can get the link on the replay.
So go for that.
I won't say any more about that.
We're in session four now, excited to be in session four.
I've entitled session four, What to Do When You Pray.
And I think that this is one of the key things when it comes to supernatural ministry, the
ministry of the Spirit, is, okay, cool, yep, I've got some of those undergirding principles.
I know I'm a child of God.
I know God's happy with me.
I know I can't fail.
I know I'm a success just because I trust God.
All those things that undergird really a healthy and thriving spiritual life with the
Spirit and enable you to live a life that looks like Jesus.
Love to have Queensland in the house.
Come on.
So good.
This is really a more practical thing, and I want to kind of walk you through some of
the process that I think is both biblical, I believe is a biblical process, but also
is just some of the things that I practically do when I'm approaching a situation, particularly
an impossible situation that requires the intervention of the Spirit of God and the
power of God, where it's going to require more than just a kind word probably.
It's going to require the actual ministry of the Spirit.
Some of the internal things that I do in that situation to engage the flow of the Spirit
into that situation.
I'll explain a little bit more about that.
But I want to begin with a story.
and some of you may, I don't remember if I've shared this story or not, but it is
one of my favorite stories. I've definitely shared it in a few places. So
you may have heard the story, but again feel free to interact with the story.
Feel free to just drop a high-five or a whoa or a hallelujah or whatever just to
just to sort of celebrate the story with me. Remember I can't hear your voice so
all I can see is your comments. So just drop that on there. By the way, as I'm
sharing the story, if you know anyone that has a tumor or has cancer, then feel
free to, if it's possible, tag them in the post, especially if they're part of this
group, because this would be very cool for them to hear. So I was in Indonesia
and a certain place in Indonesia and the Herald app is giving me
notifications as I'm teaching. That thing is very distracting. Yeah, so I was in
Indonesia and man, I love Indonesia. If anyone's been into Indonesia, just give
me a wave on the comments. Indonesia is one of my absolute favorite countries. I
love so many things about Indonesia. I love the food. I love the temperature. I
love the surf. I love the environment. I love the the sheer mass of people that
live there and I particularly love the people. I love the people. I love
Indonesians. They are just such amazing cool people and if you are
tuned in from Indonesia or you're watching the replay from Indonesia, you
just need to know this. I thoroughly miss you guys and I really cannot wait to
be able to get back to you. It's just one of my favorite places on earth. But I was
in Indonesia and I was speaking at, you know, a pretty decent-sized church. It was
probably about a thousand people in the service and we just got to the end
of the service and we're praying for people for miracles and some miracles
had started to to break out and people started to be healed and there wasn't
really a way because there were so many people that were receiving prayer. There
wasn't like a way to be able to sort of necessarily easily determine who was
being healed of what. But lots of people have been healed and the
Holy Spirit was moving and there were people all over the floor and it was
just awesome, awesome time. And so I got to the end of that. I'd probably
personally laid hands on, I don't know, hundreds of people and I was at
this point where it was at the end of like a week to two week long trip in
Indonesia. It was one of the last minutes of the whole trip. I was involved in
leading the team with another friend of mine and the schedule was so heavy that
I was like, you know, to be honest sometimes the Spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak and I was just feeling the weakness of my flesh, you know. My
spirit was dragging my flesh around begrudgingly like, I've got to go to
another meeting and my spirit was all excited but my eyes wanted to fall
asleep. And I got to the end of praying for these hundreds of people. Would have
been probably over a hundred, I think it would have been hundreds. And I do
this trick sometimes in a moment like that where I, and I know this is wrong, so
don't rebuke me for this. I've already self-rebuked myself. But I
pretend that someone's on the phone and I just, hello, hello. And I sort of, I sort
of walk out of the room because people don't normally like to interrupt you
when you're on the phone. So hello, yes, oh good, good, yes. And I just keep walking
and even though people are trying to get your attention, you just keep on walking
until you are through the mass of people and you're gone. And all that draw and all
those people wanting to pray for you are back in the room and you've done the
Houdini and disappeared. And I was doing that. Don't do this at home. 100%. That
doesn't work at home. 100% does not work at home. It only works in a large
meeting like that where people don't fully know you that well. My wife sees
right through it. Not that I would ever dare to do that to my wife. So I was, I
was doing that and these two leaders, friends of mine, they, they, they walked
up and they had someone with them with a head covering on. They looked like they
were from a religion that wasn't the Christian religion. You can kind of guess
where they were from.
what that religion might have been.
And I love people from all religions.
That's just awesome.
And they said, listen, and they stopped me.
They obviously didn't have any respect
for the fact that I was on the phone.
And they said, this is a person, they work for me.
She works for me.
And this is their first time ever in church.
They are from this other religion.
We've asked her to come today.
She's got, she's 21 years old.
No, she might've been,
well, I actually don't know how old she was.
But what I do know is she was 21 or older
and she'd had these tumors in her throat for 21 years.
And they were massive.
And to the point where they were restricting her breathing,
she'd had to have a hole cut in her neck
so she could breathe properly.
She was in a lot of pain.
I'm talking like a great,
like, you know, you could obviously see the tumors.
She had them hidden under a scarf,
but they were a mass of tumors.
And I remember feeling like, oh my gosh, I just,
I have faith for a headache right now,
but for 21 years of tumors and massive pain,
I just don't have faith for that right now.
But confronted with the impossible,
realizing very much so
that I didn't have the strength for this
and I didn't have the faith for this,
but I chose in that moment to trust and believe
that God has faith for this
when I don't have faith for this.
God has strength for this when I don't have strength for this
and God can do what I can't do.
And so my simple stance was this.
I'm a little boy with a big papa
and sometimes a little boy doesn't know what to do,
but the big papa does.
And so I just leaned back into my big papa.
I just leaned back into the bigness of God.
I leaned back into the warmth of God
and I trust that he can do what I can't do
if I give him the opportunity
in the moment and the situation.
And it's amazing to me that God sometimes waits for us
to give him the opportunity.
He doesn't need to do that,
but it seems that he does
and it's just an interesting fact.
He loves to co-labor with his children.
And so I remember just praying
and I sort of didn't even have much energy
to pull together a prayer,
but I just, in my heart,
I'm gonna share a little bit about what I did in a moment,
but I dropped down into the Spirit.
I'll describe and I'll explain what that means in a moment.
Dropped down into the Spirit
and dropped down into an acknowledgement
that my father was with me by the Spirit,
by the Holy Spirit.
And trusted in the Spirit in that moment.
And I prayed a simple prayer and she started to cry.
She opened her eyes and she said,
wow, I think I'm like a small,
I think it's a tiny bit better.
And I mean, the tumour's all still there,
everything's still there.
I mean, she was crying with thankfulness
because she was a little bit better.
I mean, there was not a shred of entitlement in this girl.
She was so thankful that God had maybe healed her 1%,
which really spoke to me
and that's another session for another time.
But thankfulness and gratitude is such a massive key
for increasing the Kingdom.
And it really sparked my attention.
So I said, we're gonna pray again.
It started to lift my faith, actually.
We prayed again and I dropped down to the Spirit again,
ministered the Spirit and just prayed a simple prayer,
asked the Father to heal us for a creative miracle
and I released the power of God onto her.
And I had my hands kind of on either side of her,
just, she was standing in the middle
and I had my hands like this.
I don't know why, that's just how,
that's not a how to pray,
that's just what I was doing.
And prayed and she started to shake, not a little bit.
She started to be like thrown
from one of my hands to the other,
like do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
And then she started to bawl her eyes out
and I'm talking like bawling her eyes out
to the point that, you know,
she had a snot bomby knocker
hanging out of one of her nostrils,
swinging back and forth
and I was just dodging it for dear life.
And it was an incredible and wow moment.
I didn't want to move,
I didn't want to move my arms
because I didn't want her to fall over and hurt herself.
So I stayed there and she, after a few minutes,
she sort of opened her eyes and came to
and she said to me,
when you prayed, I felt a hand
that was not your hand reach underneath my,
reach through my skin of my neck
and rip the tumours out
and there's no more tumours.
She took her scarf away, no more tumours.
They completely disappeared
and all the pain was gone.
The hand of God, as I prayed,
the hand of the Spirit,
as I had released the Spirit,
the hand of the Spirit,
of God had come into behind her skin, that spirit hand had reached in behind the flesh of her skin
and literally dissolved and ripped the tumors out of her neck and she was completely healed.
The longer story is even way cooler than this and I won't have time to share it right now but
she got radically born again like in the most unreal cool way. She had like a three-day
encounter with Jesus after that and just I'm like getting goosebumps. I'm feeling the spirit
right now. It was absolutely awesome to the point that she changed her name
because she's so identified with the newness of who God had made her to be
that she just discovered in Jesus and that relates to the last session we did yesterday.
Just an incredible time. I want to kind of take you through some of the inner
process that I went through in that moment and that I go through in just about every single
moment that's anything like that. Even praying before in the last session at the end of the
last session. I want in any moment that there's ministry of the Spirit, I want to sort of take
you through some of the process that goes on inside my heart. Now just a little preface is
this is that I'm not claiming that this is the only way to minister the Spirit or to
stance your heart or position your heart or your internal world when it comes to ministering the
Spirit. I'm just wanting to let you know what I have observed and seen and learned from the Holy
Spirit and through Scripture and some of the things that have worked for me. Knowing that
these have worked for many other people and they may work for you too. This is not the exclusive
only way to do this but it is something that I can teach you because it is something that I
have lived and so I'm going to teach you this and if it helps you then God bless you. I really
want to begin with 2 Corinthians 3. So we can just turn there. You can turn with me 2 Corinthians 3.
I love Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 6 and I'm wanting you to turn there
because you should probably mark this in your Bible. It is a very, very, very cool Scripture.
And actually we'll start with in verse 3. 3 verse 3. 2 Corinthians 3 verse 3. It says this.
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink but by the Spirit of
the living God not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh that is of the heart.
And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Oh just bringing that back to the last
session I taught on trust. We have such trust through Christ toward God. Why don't I mean oh
man I'm going to shoot that rabbit because there's a massive rabbit trail on that
Scripture right there. In verse 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything
as being from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God who also made us sufficient sufficient
as ministers of the new covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter kills
but the Spirit gives life. God has made you sufficient able competent competent as a minister
or an administrator or a distributor of the Spirit not of the letter not of the this is the right and
this is the wrong this is what you should do this is what you shouldn't do not of that.
I mean of course there's a time and a place for saying hey this is the right way to go
but God has made you God has specifically graced you enabled you made you a competent
you didn't make yourself competent he has made you competent he has given you what you need to
be fully competent and able to minister the Spirit that does what that gives life in other words
every time everywhere you see death whether it's a tumor whether it's an actual dead body whether
it's this thing that thing or the other thing where you see the ministry of death working you
have the opposite spirit the Spirit of life the Holy Spirit of God and you have been given
competency ability and permission the stewardship you have been entrusted
with the stewardship of the Spirit on the planet this is
Huge. And there's a few things that I want to say about that. Oh, just quickly, Janice,
you are asking which version. I'm reading from the New King James Version. To be honest,
it's not necessarily my favorite version, but it's just been my version for so long that I,
and I, I really, I love, I do love the version. My favorite version probably,
which I would suggest, is the NASB. That's probably my favorite version,
in terms of like a study Bible. I love the Passion Translation and all that just for
plain reading, but as far as study, I think that the NASB is quite a cool version.
New King James Version is okay too. That's just my opinion there. You might like another version.
That's cool. So just a few things on being made by God as a competent minister of the Spirit.
There's just some, some layers of foundation I just want to lay before I let you know,
kind of my internal personal process, is God has made us in a real amazing way.
He's made us with capacities and the capacity to function in different spheres of life. He's
given us the capacity to function physically. We have physical skills, physical capacities.
For example, if I want to build a box or I want to build a wall, I have the capacity to take my
hand, to grip a hammer, to grab a nail, and as long as I've been taught how to use these things
and I've learned the way of using them, I actually have the natural ability, the natural capacity,
the natural competency to bang the nail into the wood with my physical body.
Now, I'm not going to use my spirit to bang the nail into the wood, because my spirit can't do
that. And if I try and use my, so to do that I need, I'm just about to jump ahead of myself,
but to do that, I need to use the part of my being that God has designed for that particular
use. And there are many different things that we have been designed and given the functionality to
do in terms of our physical bodies and our physical capacities. Also, we've been given
intellectual strength, the intellectual abilities, the ability to think, the ability to make decisions,
the ability to rationalize, the ability to do these things. And there are different tasks and
challenges that we're confronted with in life, whether it's adding up the amount of groceries
we need to buy and weighing that up against how much money's in our bank account, or making the
decision between what we're going to do on Saturday, or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
There's all these different things that we can do that God's given us the capacity with our
intellectual functions to be able to perform these different tasks intellectually, physically,
intellectually. And the other one that many people don't really realize is that you have been given
functionality in the spirit. You are created body, soul, and spirit. And your spirit has the capacity
innate from God, created by God, to be able to do spirit things. Your body does body things.
Your mind and your soul do soul-mind things. And your spirit has been given the capacity to do
spirit things. Now, if you're going to need to hammer a nail into a wall, you don't drop down
into the spirit and use your spirit to try and bang the nail into the wall, because the spirit is
not designed to bang the physical nail into the wall. Your body is designed for that. But if you're
confronted with a tumor that needs to disappear, or you're confronted with a prayer need, or you're
confronted with a spiritual atmosphere that needs to shift, or another spiritual function or task
that needs to be completed, then the same way as you don't use your spirit to bang the nail in,
you don't use your hand or your physical being to try and perform a spiritual task. And you don't
use your mind to do that either. You use your spirit for that. And you engage in your spirit.
The Bible says, out of your innermost being flows rivers of living water. And out of that place,
I've heard people say things like, it's like behind your belly button. And it kind of makes
sense. It is in this deep place. The center of your being is like this spirit reservoir. That's
a spring of life that God puts in you, that springs out from you. And the Spirit of God flows
from that place in your own spirit. You have been made one with Him. And there's a lot to be said
about that. I'm not going to even get into the half of it in this teaching. But there's this
place in you.
can drop down into and you can engage with and you can acknowledge and you can cooperate with
where the Spirit flows from and out of that place you have been given the capacity from God
to be a competent minister of the Spirit to give life.
Now I realize that that may have gone over some people's heads. That may be very simple to others
of you. If you have any questions around that, feel free to drop questions as I'm teaching.
And I do realize that there are probably many sessions that could come from this session
to explain different portions of what I'm talking about. I'm kind of giving you the
snapshot overview right now and getting to the point where I'm going to share with you
actually practically what I do.
To minister the Spirit, one of my mentors, a person that's been a hero of mine
by the name of Clark Taylor, he taught me, he said, before praying for anyone
sometimes you can find yourself trying, sometimes you can find yourself striving in your mind
or even in your body, striving to get something to happen or to get a result in prayer as you're
praying for someone. As soon as you find yourself striving, you've got to just immediately stop.
Just stop. And this is a key for every person listening. It's been a massive key for me. Stop.
Take a breath. I'll explain in a second why it's so important to take a breath. For me,
take a breath and drop from your mind, from trying to work it out up here, drop down into
your Spirit. I know I'm not giving you like a theological answer here, but that's
what it feels like to me. It's like stop and drop. Just drop down into the space that
is your inmost being. Drop into that space and just drop in. And what that simply is really
is an acknowledgement that there's a flow of the Spirit that's flowing from within you.
And you have been given the authority and the capacity to direct that flow.
Obviously, in collaboration with the leadership of the Holy Spirit as He leads you, in what
direction to face that flow. And this is the stop and drop technique. When I say stop and drop,
it's, you know, this whole teaching that I'm sharing right now is behind that statement,
stop and drop. Just stop and drop into the Spirit. It's such a key to ministering the Spirit.
Otherwise, you can so easily find yourself ministering out of intellect or out of your flesh
rather than out of the Spirit. Jesus actually taught this in the Lord's Prayer. And I'm
just going to share the first part of the Lord's Prayer. But He taught this in the
Lord's Prayer. And the Lord's Prayer is kind of, if you look at the whole thing, it's actually,
it's been a practice of the church throughout church history to actually recite and to
both recite the Lord's Prayer and to use the Lord's Prayer as a prayer structure,
structuring all types of different prayer and meditation, Christian biblical meditation.
And I think in a nutshell, the Lord's Prayer really is like a pattern that Jesus gives
on how to pray. How to pray and not just how to pray, but how to approach prayer,
how to approach God in prayer, and how to approach situations that need prayer.
And it's a really powerful thing. And He begins with this. He really begins, I call it stop and
drop, but He calls it this. When you pray, say this, our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be
your name. That's Jesus' way of saying stop and drop. And this is what that literally means.
Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. But now, that's the first part of the
prayer. And it's the first part of the prayer because it's got to come first.
That is before your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We forgive,
all that stuff. Before the task, before the assignment, before the what are we doing now,
God, there must be initially this moment of acknowledgement and a stopping and dropping
into the truth of God that lives within you. And what that literally means, our Father was in
heaven. Our Father, first of all, Jesus is saying, He's our Father. He's not just my Father. He's not
just your Father. He's our Father. In other words, I'm a son. I'm His child the same way
as you're His child. In other words, you look at my life, you look at the way I relate to the Father,
that's the way that you've been invited to relate to the Father. You are allowed to have,
and you're invited to have, and you're designed to have the same kind of relationship with God.
that I do. We have the same father. We're on the same playing field. We're on the same team.
We're in the same jersey. And that's a profound thing to actually transition
your perspective of God in terms of a relationship with Him from just simply being your master,
or just simply being your Lord, or just simply being your God, to first and foremost being
your father, being your dad, and you're His child. That's very, very powerful. That's the
first acknowledgement. I'm a little boy, a growing, maturing, but still little boy with a big father.
I don't need to be the big father. I don't need to be good at God's job. God is already
good at His job. I just need to be good at being a little boy holding the hand of my
father. I just need to be real good at acknowledging and knowing that God's with
me everywhere I go. When I step on the field, when I step in the ring, when I step in the
supermarket, when I step on the bus, when I step into whatever context I'm about to step into,
my father steps in with me because He will never leave me and He will never forsake me. God is
with me. Our father who is in heaven, that word heaven should have an s on the end of it. It's
actually the Greek word, and forgive me right now, I can't remember the exact word, but it's the word
that is the plural for heaven, and it literally means heavens. It means not just a third heaven,
not just space, but the air that's around us. And the emphasis actually in the context is on
the air that's around us. It could simply be translated like this. Our father who is in,
who is in the very air that we breathe, hallowed be your name. And hallowed be your name could
be translated this. We stop and we acknowledge you and make space inside our hearts to honor
your presence. Make space inside our hearts to honor your presence. It's Jesus's way of saying
stop and drop. Stop and drop out of trying to analyze the situation, out of trying to rationalize
the situation, out of trying to change the situation in your own strength, and into the flow
of the Spirit that comes directly from the reservoir of God. This is a good reservoir to
be connected to. This is a good source to be connected to, the source of the Spirit.
And it looks like this. I'll just give the example of the tumor situation. There's a
lady with a tumor in front of me. I stop. Father, I acknowledge that you love me, that you never
leave me nor forsake me. And sometimes I'm not good at holding on to your hand, but it doesn't
matter because when my strength fails to hold your hand, your hand's strength never fails to hold mine.
Your strength to hold on to me is far greater than my strength to hold on to you. And I know
you're holding on to me now, Father. I acknowledge your love for me and I make internal space to
honor your presence around me right now. You're in the very air that I'm breathing.
Take a breath and drop down into the Spirit. And drop down into the Spirit, into the truth
that I am one with God, into the truth that I have been made one. I have been fused together
by the Spirit into the person of God as a sharer of the inheritance of Jesus.
This is good. And I drop into that place. And in that place, the further I drop into that place,
the less striving there is. The further I drop into that place, the less of my strength is
required. The further I drop into that place, the more strong I feel. The further I drop into that
place, the more aware I become of the person of the Spirit that's flowing out of me and the power
and the grace of the Spirit that's flowing from me. And the more I can begin to recognize
what that grace, and there's many different graces that come from the Spirit, what that grace is for
and what it's doing. And it's a process of time and learning and stewardship and
growing and maturing in the Spirit. And so much of it is learned in moments like this,
where we're actually learning to stop and drop and engage in that place. It's the same way,
I suppose, as I wouldn't give my little five-year-old necessarily a hammer and a nail
and expect her to build a new room in our house. But I might give her two bits of wood and a hammer
and a nail and supervise her like a good father and watch her nail those two bits of wood together.
Not expecting too much from it, but looking and saying, hey, if you learn this skill, I might
give you three bits of wood. And then by the time you're 10, hey, you might be able to build your
table. The same as dropping in the spirit and learning to flow in the spirit is
it's the same as what I mentioned before with my sheep hear my voice but
they don't understand me yet. It is a process that we grow stronger in and
more capable in as we engage in that process. Now God is the one that
makes us competent. God is the one that makes us able. Just the same way as God
has made me able to play the piano. How has he made me able? Well he's given me
two hands with two thumbs and eight fingers and a capacity to learn. I
have been made able to play the piano but I still have to learn the piano and
and that's the same with the Spirit and with the gifts of the Spirit. You've been
made able. You've been made capable. You've been given the ability but it's
through the process of use that you that you activate the ability that you've
been given. So there's other things that I could say about that and we're gonna
actually cover that in another session where we talk about stewardship. We're
gonna cover that a little bit more and I'm gonna give some a lot of practicals
and how to do that. It's gonna be super fun but what we're gonna do now is we're
actually gonna pray and I'm gonna attempt to...now it's a little bit hard
because we're on this Facebook live situation and this session is actually
really cool when there's people live in the room but I'm the only person in my
room right now other than the Holy Spirit and Father and Jesus and other
invisible people. Maybe some angels I'm not sure. But what we're gonna do is
we're gonna attempt to do a little activation and we're gonna do something
similar to what we did in the last session. So what I want you to do is just
take some time. Just take a moment and you can continue to listen to my voice
but I want you to just close your eyes and I want you to do your best and some
of this what I'm sharing with you is stuff that you kind of just have to
explore and try on your own and you'll once you get it you'll get it. It's sort
of a little bit hard to explain to a degree. I just want you to sit there
find a space and I want you just to do your best to drop into the Spirit and to
do that just take a breath and as you take that breath recognize that God is
in the breath. Recognize that God is with you. He's fused himself and made himself
one with you. He's chosen you. He's made you capable as a minister of the Spirit.
Sufficient as a minister of the Spirit to minister life into areas that need
life. You've been given authority to do this. Just drop into the Spirit into that
deep place in you and acknowledge that God is alive in that place in the middle
of you and the depths of you. There's a wellspring of life that is springing up
from within you because of the Spirit. Because of the Holy Spirit. Because of
the price Jesus paid. And just drop into that space and just start to think
about that space. One of the ways to drop into that space is just simply think
about it. Just simply think about it. Simply mull over it. Simply just feel it
to the best you can. Engage with it to the best you can. God you're in the
center of me. And now what I want you to do is as you're in that place and you can
just sort of stay in that place but at the same time you can kind of look at
the screen as well. And this is the moment where if you haven't
done so already just drop some comments on the screen so people can see your
name pop up. Because what I'm gonna do in a second is I'm gonna ask you to pick a
name. I'm gonna ask you to just pick a name and it might be you just simply
just picking a name because you think well that'll be a cool person to
minister the Spirit to. Or a name that you feel the Spirit leading
you towards a highlighting. But pick a name and we're gonna minister the Spirit.
Now I've never done this before but I know that there's no time or space in
the Spirit and that I'm a hundred percent convinced that you can minister
to people thousands of miles away as if they were in the same room as you. And I
could tell you tons of stories about that. But I want you just to ask the Lord
for a name of someone on that on the on the screen that's popping up.
up right now. Cool. Thanks guys for commenting. That's so cool. Thanks for
commenting. Just just throw a high-five up, throw a yo up, even just a little dot.
Just just get your name up on the screen so people can see your name. And I want
you to pick a name and I want you to just, once you've got your name, I want
you just to close your eyes and I want you to, some of you won't need to do this
because you're already there, but others of you might have popped back up into
your head again and dropped back down into the Spirit. Just take another breath.
But hold that name in that place and bring that name down with you into that
place in your inmost being, right, into the into the Spirit with you. And just
begin to engage with the Lord and feel with the Lord and just engage with the
Spirit right now and just be asking and be leaning into the Spirit, asking and
saying, Holy Spirit, what are you ministering to this person right now?
What are you ministering? And he'll probably give you either a sense or a
feeling or even a word that describes what kind of grace or what aspect of his
grace he is he is ministering or wanting to deliver or give or flow over to the
person that you're holding in your heart right now. It might be freedom, it
might be peace, it might be healing, it might be provision, but you'll get either
a word or you'll get just a feeling that you'll be able to kind of think of, oh
that's the word that goes with that feeling. I know that's a little bit hard
to explain but you kind of know, some of this is your process and it's specific
to you so I can't really over explain it. I know how it is for me, I don't a
hundred percent know how it is for you, but there are some similarities that are
true for everyone and that's what I'm trying to pick at right now. But I want
you to think about that flow of the Spirit right now. What is it that the
Holy Spirit is flowing over the person whose name you are holding in your heart
right now? This is one of the coolest ways to minister the Spirit to people
and they don't even need to know you're doing it. This is so cool. And I just
simply want you to stay in that place, hold that person's name. You might not
have ever seen their face but you can see their name. And I want you just by
faith and really you're engaging some of your imagination in this and your
imagination is part of the function of the Spirit that God has given you. It's
for this purpose and this is part of the way that God has made you. This is a very
scriptural, biblical, godly thing. And I just want you to take that the essence
of the Spirit that you're feeling. Right now there's a person's name in my heart
and what I'm feeling around that person is I'm feeling, I'm trying to think of
the word for it right now. It's like energy and it's light. It's like
awake. It's like an awakening. It's like I'm feeling that. And sometimes you don't
have all the words for it but you know what you're feeling. And you just, what
you do is you just turn that feeling, the essence of the Spirit, and you turn it
towards the person that you're holding in your heart. And you just shine that
feeling and you minister that feeling by the Spirit. The Spirit's invisible.
You are engaging in an invisible space right now which is kind of
a peculiar and sometimes foreign space to minister in. But you just project that
and you hold that feeling over that person. I'm just holding the light and
the energy and it's like an awakening over this person right now. I almost
have the feeling like they feel super tired and maybe a little bit run down
and they need to be infused with life again. And so I'm just holding the life
and the awakeness of the Spirit over them right now. I'm ministering to that
to them. I'm imagining as I'm doing that all of their cells coming alive with the
life and the awakeness of the Spirit. And as I'm doing that I'm trying hard not to
get distracted because I know I'm still in this time with you and teaching this
class here online. But I'm starting to go into the prophetic and words of
knowledge and I'll probably end up contacting that person who's in my heart
after this and actually just sharing some of that stuff with them. But what
I want you to do is just do that for a little bit and then if you can summarize
the feeling or the dynamic from the Holy Spirit from God that you have
been holding over that person in the Spirit. I really hope this makes sense.
sense. I know I'm trying, sometimes spiritual things are really hard to explain with
reasonable words and so I do apologize for that and I do realize that some of this might be a
little bit like, what? And again, I really do apologize for that. I'm trying to explain kind
of what happens in the inner world of Matt and I'm a little bit of a hyper creative
kind of unusual person anyway. So hopefully it makes sense to you. It definitely makes sense
to me, but that definitely does not mean it necessarily makes sense to anyone else.
But once you've felt that for a while and you've been holding that over that person for a while,
I want you to try and just put that essence of the Spirit in a sentence or a word. Peace,
freedom, healing, whatever it is, life, energy, and just make a comment on the comment section.
Just tag the person and just say, I've been releasing dot dot dot over you. I've been
releasing peace over you. I've been releasing health over you. I've been releasing da da da
over you. And you can feel free to prophesy over that or whatever, but it would be interesting to
me to just take note. If someone has been ministering the Spirit to you, just take a little
bit of a note of kind of what happens in your life, what happens in your heart, what happens
around you over the next few hours. It would be really interesting to know how that relates and
comes into alignment with what the person has been ministering over you and what they've been
releasing over you. The ministry of the Spirit is so powerful. Never underestimate the ministry
of the Spirit. Everything that is seen came from something that is not seen first. Everything that
is physical came from the Spirit. There's nothing that you can see that wasn't in the Spirit
first, as it were. And so this is a very, very, very, very, very powerful thing that we're doing
right now. It's 100% not just your imagination. It is powerful and effective. And you have been
given the capacity and the ability to do this by God. So we've obviously done an activation online.
When it comes to praying for people in the flesh, it's the same thing.
It's the same thing as you just stop and drop. You take that person's needs, you take that person's
breakthrough, or you just take a note of that person and you hold them in your heart, in your
spirit, and you just feel the flow of the Spirit towards that person. Stop and drop. Our Father,
who is in the air we breathe, we stop and become aware of you. We stop and make space
internally for you right now. And then from that place, you minister the Spirit.
There'd be a lot of things that I would do right now in terms of activations
if you were in the same room as me and we were live. But you are not. But I want to encourage
you to just continue for a few minutes just dropping some comments on there and the feeling
of the Spirit that you're feeling towards that person as you are ministering the Spirit to them.
Just give them some feedback on what you have been ministering.
So many times, guys, I've been in situations where I've been praying for someone and I've
been trying, I've been really pushing and striving and it's all up here in my head.
And I'll stop and drop, come down into the Spirit and minister from down,
I'm patting my stomach right now, from down here. And I'll minister from there
and the flow just opens up and people start getting impacted by the Spirit immediately.
I could tell you story after story, after story, after story, after story,
and I just told you at the start, the person with the tumor in India.
You know, my intellect is not going to bring that result. My physical body is not going to bring
that result. But as I engage with the Holy Spirit that lives inside of me and release
that flow of the Spirit onto that person, the Spirit gives that kind of result.
And so, awesome. All right. Well, I'm going to finish this now.
And what I'm going to do is it'll finish and then I'll upload it on the Raising Royalty site.
So you can carry on dropping comments when the session is uploaded onto the Raising Royalty site,
which normally takes about two minutes. So it might stop for two minutes and then you can start again.
I'll also, of course, drop the...
Sorry there's a whole bunch of stuff going on here. I'll also drop the, sorry
what am I talking about? I'll drop the link for the three-week activation.
That'll be cool. On the comments soon, you'll see that there. And have an
amazing day today, night, morning, whatever it is for you. And encourage you to try
this stuff out. And feel free to drop the testimonies, drop the stories of
trying this stuff out on the feed. And give feedback in the comments. It's
just so cool to see. I love to hear your feedback. Love to hear the testimonies.
Love to hear what you're getting from this and all that stuff. Tomorrow we're
gonna be live with three sessions. So we're gonna talk about passing through
the eye of the needle. And that's gonna be a really cool one just to let you
know what that's all about. That's gonna be how to deal with disappointment. How
to deal with things when it doesn't happen the way you expected it to happen.
What do you do when you pray for someone and they don't get healed? That kind of
thing. So that's a real big thing for people. And I've often found that this is
a really powerful session. And we're gonna talk about the still small voice.
Following the still small voice. And we are going to talk about stewarding
the seed. So awesome. Love you guys. Peace.